But then again, I didn’t want to seem like I wasn’t being attentive, because recently I had let the man in on the terrible secret, which is that many men interrupt and disregard women and do it religiously and don’t even notice that they’re doing it but also gain power by doing it even if they do it without thinking, without what I guess you would call “consideration.” And so now if I ever interrupted the man, he would tell me in my own language how painful it is to be interrupted. He would explain, in a voice that sounded so much like my own, how I am not considerate, even though I am
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